gamers equal serial killers?

[Grahav]

We can only dream...

 

[Merkavar]

high school-> higher education-> job-> good life= happiness.

->video games = obesity, cyber stalker, serial killer!

ok sure video games can lead to obesity but i have gamed all my lfe and i have never cyberstalked any one and the serial killer accusations were dropped after the evidence went missing.

high school(sitting in schools)-> higher education(sitting in uni)-> job(sitting in office)-> good life= happiness(obesity from increasingly sedative lifestyle).

No matter what you do in life obesity is an option unless you job is physical like building or landscaping or something. but you dont normally got to highschool and uni to get a physically demanding job.

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

First off, what grade are you in? I you're in anything past year 3 of high school, he has no right to try and tell you how to live your life.

Second, I would have raised my hand and said "But sir, according to recent studies, we've found that the majority of gamers are now middle aged women playing browser games! Are you saying most of our moms are fat serial killers waiting to happen?"

And then rejoice in the lols that would ensue form the class. XD

I LOLed in real life after reading this =D

Then my work....*flips sitar over in the air and points dramatically* is DONE!

You're welcome for the lol, BTW.

 

[Sarge034]

Are you a gamer? Are you a serial killer?

Look at the number of gamers in the world compared to the number of serial killers in the world.

I would have asked this in class.
"Were there no serial killers BEFORE video games?"

Then I would sit back and look like this....

EDIT- damn ninja hidin in the bush!

Jack the Ripper played GTA.
Charles Manson was a PONG fanatic.
Ed Gein LOVED the Saw games on the 360.
Ted Bundy played FF7 every time he killed someone.
David Berkowitz was a Dantes Inferno master.
John Wayne Gacey would spend hours a day playing text games on his C64.
Jeffrey Dahmer was just nuts (there's always one that doesn't follow the trend.
Albert Fish still plays Angry Birds on his iPhone.

what a crock of shit, hell if games lead to that, I'm sure some family would have sued Microsoft or Sony for murder when someone claimed that Halo caused them to want to kill. TV, comics, Games, Porn, Radio, Rock and Roll, Metal etc, all been blamed for societies problems...how about...some people TOTALLY SUCK and do not belong in society, PERIOD

that's my bit

uto

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

Serial killers are obese? How do they run from the crime scenes?

....You have no idea how hard it was to choke back my laughter at that. (I'm in class)

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

It used to be Communism, rock and roll, role playing games and comic books, and now it's gaming's turn. In a few years, they'll find something else to be ignorant about.

 

[Vampire cat]

How you managed to pass on that brilliant possibility to tell him about the Penn & Teller: Bullshit episode on Video Games I do not understand, but that should explain to anyone why he's oh so wrong ^^.

Also, yes. I am a serial killer. After a day of playing Stronghold 2 I usually hit the town with my broad sword and slash some people up, after which I go to the pub and get drunk. Some times I even bring my bow-wielding friend. To murdering!

 

[Thaluikhain]

My question is why is there such a bad rep about video games? do people honesty believe that games lead to people being serial killers or cyber stalkers?

Well, serial killers and various violent behaviours are very often caused by the culture the person comes from. Videogames are part of our culture. The problem is, people forget about the rest of the culture if they personally don't play videogames but do everything else.

The correct answer isn't "No, videogames don't do anything!", but to complain about any and all violence in the books, TV, movies et al the person criticising games is interested in.

That's assuming, however, they mean games in general, not particular games which could fall under the heading of hate speech or child pornography or something, which are to be condemned same as anything else that does.

 

[Worgen]

if you want to piss him off make a comment about teachers teaching because they cannot do

 

[dyre]

Also, yes. I am a serial killer. After a day of playing Stronghold 2 I usually hit the town with my broad sword and slash some people up, after which I go to the pub and get drunk. Some times I even bring my bow-wielding friend. To murdering!

That's pretty weird. After I started playing video games, the number of murders I committed per year dropped 30%!

 

[Riku'sTwilight]

high school-> higher education-> job-> good life= happiness.

That right there is a lie. I've been to high school, i've been to higher education and I've got a job and I sure as hell am not happy. These things don't make you happy, what makes you happy is enjoying your free time and having enriching experiences; gaming can fulfill both of those criteria.

On a side note, In my free time I frequently run around the dark alley's of London Cyrodiil killing people and laughing merrily as I'm drenched in blood-stained clothes with a gleaming knife in my hand.

Whatever makes you happy!

 

[bushwhacker2k]

He then started talking bout bad lives and under high school he wrote ->video games = obesity, cyber stalker, serial killer! He then proceeded to talk about how if you play video games you'll end up one of these things and have a bad life.

That's embarrassing, that sounds like something I'd see in a movie making people out to be worse than they are. I mean why would a history teacher be talking about happiness in life in the first place, but then he ends up on the "games corrupt the youth!" propaganda bs?

Shameful.

I think it's actually just textbook prejudice, people see something and maybe they hear something about it and they make judgments about it before they've ever experienced it themselves.

 

[Mad Hamish]

If playing video games leads to people becoming serial killers, then shouldn't there be a lot more murders each year? I mean, according to wikipedia the total console sales of the current generation is about 60 million in the United States alone, and by definition a serial killer has to have killed more than one person.

 

[Radoh]

He probably said it because as a seasoned gamer, my in-game kill count is probably in the millions. Oh he meant real life? Probably because he's a history teacher and video games are new to the world thus is alien to him and thus evil.

 

[Baneat]

So I was in history today and my professor was explaining what in life leads to happiness. He was drawing some life diagram on the board and put down what most people do. it went high school-> higher education-> job-> good life= happiness. He then started talking bout bad lives and under high school he wrote ->video games = obesity, cyber stalker, serial killer! He then proceeded to talk about how if you play video games you'll end up one of these things and have a bad life. It was nearing the end of class and i was desperate to go to lunch so i didn't say anything on the matter.

My question is why is there such a bad rep about video games? do people honesty believe that games lead to people being serial killers or cyber stalkers?

You need to kick your professor into a critical thinking course

 

[Double A]

Because people like to find scapegoats to blame, and violent videogames are one of the easiest things out there.

I find the easiest thing to blame anything on is a bunch of idiots. Sounds a bit like someone the OP knows...

I really hate it when someone judges something they haven't experienced. Yeah, I know, a bit hypocritical that I don't know the professor in question, and if I'm wrong about him, I'd apologize to him. I just have a gut feeling on this, mostly due to the "video games leads to obesity, obesity leads to cyber stalking, and cyber stalking leads to serial killing" spiel. I'm somewhat able to buy the first one, or the third one if there are a few more steps in between, but I utterly fail to see the leap between being fat and stalking online.